Hendrix, John Shannon

The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture

This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed itsown architectural and ornamental codes.The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies EnglishGothic architecture in four principal stages: the earlyEnglish Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and theperpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of thesearchitectural testimonies allow us to understand the wholeoriginality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury,Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothicarchitecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the sensesand spirit.